- 5 AS- SOLUTIONS 22nd of April - GARDENING

GARDENING ( 2 )

3. Match the words and create compound nouns.

1. back garden : patio trasero
2. birdhouse: pajarera
3. vegetable batch: lote de verduras
4. compost heap: pila de compost
5. deckchair: tumbona
6. hosepipe: manguera
7. wildflowers: flores silvestres
8. watering can: regadera
9. greenhouse: invernadero
10. hanging basket: cesta

4. Choose the correct word

1. leaf
2. violet
3. daisy
4. bud
5. hay
6. roots



KEW GARDENS ( 3 )

FIND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT KEW GARDENS

1. What is "Kew Gardens"?

Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world".

2. Where are Kew Gardens situated?

Kew Gardens is situated in the southwest London. 

The full address is Kew, Richmond, London, TW9 3AE. 

But there are several entrances. It is better to check on the web before to go. The bus route 65 stops close to Lion Gate, Elizabeth Gate and Victoria Gate.

3. When were they founded?

The Kew gardens were founded in the early 18th century, as a royal palace to today´s globally renowed scientific institution for plant and fungal research. 

https://www.kew.org/about-us/history-of-kew

4. How large/big is Kew gardens?

Its present size of 121 hectares ( 300 acres). 

What it is meaning:

1 Hectareas is equal to 10000 square-metres.

1 Football Fields is equal to 5351.215 squaremetres

121 ha x 10000 = 1210000 square-metres

1210000: 5351,215 = 226,118 Football Fields

5. How many kinds of plants are there in Kew?

Kew Gardens has one of the most diverse collections of living plants of any botanic garden in the world. Over 50,000 living plants.

6. How many books has the library got?

The library is one of the largest collections of published botanical information in the world. Its main subject area is the taxonomy and systematics of wild plants, including collections of herbaria in microfom.

https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/library

7. Write the Plant Collection. ( 1-10)

The Herbarium

The Fungarioum

Seed Collection

Economic Botany Collection

Explore our DNA and Tissue Bank 

Microscope Slide Collection

Spirit Collection

In Vitro Collection

Living Collection

https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections

8. The Palm House is a glasshouse ( also called a greenhouse) at Kew Gardens
( You Tube: "The Palm House at Kew Gardens"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ChP6OeNmBE) and complete the sentences:

- The Palm House was constructed in........1844..........from over...200...........tons of iron an ..16,000..........panes of glass.

- The Palm House looks like the upturned hull of a ..ship......

- This is almost certainly....the oldest pot plant in the world ....and it came here in ....1775.....

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